Ian Pace
Ian Pace is a pianist and musicologist, and Professor of Music, Culture and Society and University Advisor – Interdisciplinarity at City, University of London but writes here in a personal capacity
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care